K O O N G G A Bulletin of the Rotary Club 0f Ku-ring-gai Inc - Chartered 6th February 1959

In this issue This week: Bob Elsworth: Bobbo marketing Last meeting’s guests and notices District Conference: Canberra 11-12 March 2016 Are you interested in aviation? • Model United Nations Assembly An evening with Rod Maqueen Last week: District Governor Gina Growden’s visit RAWCS Rover Next week: Philip Smith: Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children

Calendar of events • Club officers • Club committees

The club meets every Monday 6.30pm at Killara Golf Club, 556 Pacific Highway, Killara. Visitors welcome (Tel: 9498 2700). www.kuringgairotary.org.au ‘Be a gift to the world’ is the Rotary International President’s theme for 2015-16

Volume 58 No. 89 31 August 2015 Rotary monthly theme: Membership & extension

This week: Bob Elsworth: Bobbo marketing

There are less than 7 months to go until the next Bobbin Head Cycle Classic on Sunday, 20 March 2016. (Put the date in your diary now!) The secret to the success of the event is marketing and we can’t start work on it soon enough.

Marketing supremo Bob Elsworth has any number of different ways to market the event and he needs as much help as he can get. To start with he needs teams of people willing to do anything and everything from making phone calls to placing advertisements in bike shops.

In this presentation Bob will outline all the planned mar-keting activities. Come along to find out how you can assist and put up your hands!

Last week’s guests & notices President Graham:

Welcomed District Governor Gina Growden, Past Dis-trict Governor Harold Sharpe and Kathy Jackson;

Reminded members of the working bee at Donations In Kind on Saturday, 5 September;

Announced a combined meeting with the Rotary Club of Lindfield on Monday, 28 September, focusing on a proposed joint service project in Fiji; and

Requested the many members who have not yet reg-istered under the Child Protection Act to do so, so that they can participate in the club’s child-related projects.

President John Hepburn of the Rotary Club of Lind-field announced (amongst other things) that the spec-tacular 2016 wall calendar produced by the Rotary Club of Turramurra to raise funds for Polio Plus will be available for sale at $20 each at the meeting on Monday, 28 September.

It won’t be long before you need a 2016 calendar, so take this opportunity to get in before the rush and sup-port a worthy cause.

District Conference: Canberra 11-12 March 2016

PDG Harold Sharpe urged mem-bers to register soon for the high-light of the Rotary year, the Dis-trict Conference, to be held at the National Convention Centre and the Australian Institute of Sport.

The conference will be affordable and brief (only 1.5 days, leaving time to visit other places in Can-berra). The theme for the Satur-day night dinner at the AIS will be sports teams.

Guest speakers at the conference include:

Cardiologist Professor Greg Nelson, who helped es-tablish Regional Heart Attack Centres;

Rob Pennicott, who circumnavigated Australia in an inflatable dinghy, raising over $295,000 for Polio Plus;

Dr Sam Prince, chairman of ‘One Disease At A Time’ which aims to eradicate infectious diseases;

Dr Tim Sharp, author of ‘Live Happier, Live Longer - your guide to positive ageing’;

Gemma Sisia, the irrepressible founder of the School

of St Jude in Tanzania; and

Simon Kent-Jones from Ord Minnett, talking about current investment markets.

Early bird pricing and eligibility for a prize draw are avail-able until 30 November. DG Gina is hoping for an attend-ance of 955 Rotarians - 1 more than attended the confer-ence in PDG Harold’s year.

For more information and to register, visit https://conference2016d9685.wordpress.com/

Are you interested in aviation? The International Fel-lowship of Flying Ro-tarians welcomes all Rotarians with an interest in aviation who are dedicated to promoting Rotary and aviation as an opportunity for Australian and international fellowship and service.

The IFFR enjoys bi-annual flyins to locations throughout Australia and annual post-Convention flyaways.

Consider joining like-minded Rotarians. You don’t have to be either a pilot or an aircraft owner.

Contact World Vice President Australasia Ian Hope

ihope@ozemail.com.au or phone 02 9743 5776

Model United Nations Assembly Seventy two high school stu-dents from around Australia gathered in Canberra for the weekend of 15/16 August for the Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA). In 27 teams representing their coun-try of choice, they debated con-temporary global issues related to peace and security, human

rights, refugees, the environment, arms control and de-velopment issues.

This year’s event was the 19th National MUNA conduct-ed by The Rotary Club of Canberra Sunrise with the sup-port of the major sponsor, the Australian National Univer-sity (ANU). MUNA was first introduced to Rotary in NSW in 1980 and, since then, has spread throughout most districts of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guin-ea.

MUNA provided students with the practical experience of debating in a UN-style assembly while at the same in-creasing their understanding of international affairs and diplomacy. Students dressed up for the event in the na-tional costume of their adopted countries. The event was held in the historic House of Representatives Chamber of Old Parliament House, now known as the Museum of Australian Democracy, and was opened by Mr Greg Mo-riarty, the recently appointed Coordinator of Counter Ter-rorism and previously Australia’s Ambassador to Indone-sia.

Students toured the ANU during their time in Canberra and, on Saturday evening, joined with diplomats from the embassies of the countries they represented and Coun-selors and Rotarians at a dinner hosted by the Canberra Sunrise Rotary Club. The guest speaker was Mr

Gary Quinlan who up until January this year had spent

six years in New York as Australia’s Ambassador to the United Nations. He enthralled all with his in-sights into the UN during his time there and some of the challenges the or-ganisation faces in the future.

This was, according to those who had seen pre-vious events, the best MUNA ever. The standard of debate was very high and all teams acquitted themselves well while debating real global issues that continue to challenge the UN and its member states. Teams with the best overall performance were judged by adjudicators and prizes awarded.

The team from the Shore School in Sydney representing Brazil carried off the major prize. The team from St Pe-ter’s Anglican College in Broulee representing Samoa was awarded the Totenhofer Peace Prize having been judged to have made the greatest overall contribution to issues concerned with the promotion of world peace.

An evening with Rod Macqueen The Rotary Club of Roseville Chase is delighted to present An Evening with Rod Macqueen AM on Tuesday 8

September 2015.

Rod Macqueen AM is a leader in the sports world as well as a motivator, mentor and innovative thinker in life and in business.

He is an internationally renowned coach, winning every trophy available during his 4 year tenure as Head Coach of the Australian Wallabies, including: the Rugby Union World Cup, Tri-Nations Series and British and Irish Lions Series. He was previously a top level surfboat rowing and rugby athlete. He is an Associate Member in the Australian Sports Hall of Fame and his autobiography One Step Ahead was a best seller. He is also a highly successful businessman as Chairman of Advantage Line, a multi-million dollar point of sale advertising com-pany. Rod Macqueen was awarded as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2003.

Rod is a patron for the Sargood Foundation, which sup-ports a planned residential educational centre for people living with a spinal cord injury.

As Edwin Zemancheff interviews Rod, hear stories from the world of rugby, life beyond coaching and the work of the Sargood Foundation. It promises to be a memorable evening! Proceeds to the Sargood Foundation.

Register at http://rotarydistrict9685.org.au/event/aed95747-a183-4122-8d36-104ca323edad/.

The club looks forward to seeing you and your table of family, friends and colleagues on 8 September.

Please RSVP by 1/9/15 - places are booking quickly!

Last week: District Governor Gina Growden’s visit District Governor Gina needs to visit 75 clubs in District 9685 during the first 6 months of her tenure, so she was happy to make her 31st and 32nd Official Visits to the Rotary Clubs of Ku-ring-gai and Lindfield together.

Acknowledging the presence of Past District Governor Don Durie (a member of the Rotary Club of Lindfield), Gina also noted the absence of Asisstant Dis-trict Governor Theo Glockemann, who was in Timor Leste for the Rotary Youth Leadership Award program.

Gina said that her role and that of her 42 strong team is to help Rotary clubs do their jobs, rather than telling them what to do. The purpose of her Official Visits is to exchange views and information and to pass on infor-mation from Rotary International. She was ‘blown away’ by what she learned at board meetings of each club that she attends during her visits.

Noting that both clubs are strong and active, Gina con-gratulated them on what they are doing for the communi-ty, both locally and internationally. She presented presi-dential caps to the President of each club.

Gina spoke about Rotary International President Ravi Ravindran’s theme for 2015/16: ‘Be a Gift to the World’. Quoting President Ravi, she said “every one of us has something to give — whoever we are, whatever our place in life. We can give our talent, our knowledge, our abilities, and our effort; we can give our dedication and our devotion. Through Rotary, we can take these gifts and make a genuine difference in the lives of others and in our world.

It is said that we are born with our fists clenched, but we die with our hands open, and that our talents are the gift that God gave us. What we make of our talents is our gift back to God. Equally we come into this world grasping at everything, but when we leave it, we leave all material things behind as well. Through Rotary, we can leave behind something real and lasting. Our time is now. It will never come again. Be a Gift to the World.” Gina listed as the 3 top priorities in Rotary:

Elimination of polio from the world (she noted that it is over 12 months since the last new case in Africa and only Afghanistan and Pakistan remain as endemic problem countries);

Membership: the aim is a net increase of 1 quality member per Rotary club throughout the world, with a focus on encouraging more women to join (and mem-bership, including looking after members as part of the Rotary ‘family’, is the responsibility of all Rotari-ans); and

Continuing support for the Rotary Foundation, which helps with international projects, particularly through membership of the ‘Centurion’ program.

Concluding her presentation, Gina said she was keen to encourage Rotary clubs to work together, encouraged Rotarians to attend the District Conference and remind-ed members that the number one aim is to have fun and enjoy Rotary.

RAWCS Rover Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) assists Rotary Clubs in Australia with the develop-ment and management of interna-tional community service projects.

Whether it's projects to help rebuild in the aftermath of disaster, pro-grams to bring education to coun-

tries where illiteracy stifles development or bringing health care and medical aid to those who can least ac-cess it,

RAWCS supports Rotary clubs in sending teams of vol-unteers to developing countries to provide assistance upon the development of much needed facilities, espe-cially within the health and education areas.

RAWCS Rover is the newsletter of Rotary Australia World Community Service. You can read the latest edi-tion at http://www.rawcs.com.au/aboutRAWCS_publications.htm

Next week: Philip Smith: Rotary Oce-ania Medical Aid for Children Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) com-menced out of the actions of a single Rotarian, who visited Fiji with a group of Australian surgeons in 1988. He found the child mortality rate as high as 25% in some places, and quickly established that a major factor was the lack of medical and surgical facilities and skills available to children of those areas.

Rotary was challenged to assist an 18 year old Fijian girl whose right leg was threatened if immediate surgery was not performed. During the next four years eight children were brought to Australia for major, often life-saving sur-gery. Soon 20 Rotary clubs were caught up in the suc-cess of each case and assisted in various ways.

ROMAC quickly went about harnessing assistance from medical experts, hospitals, nurses, physiotherapists, pa-thology and radiology services, airlines, sponsors and other supporters.

In this talk, Philip Smith will tell us about the work that ROMAC is doing and how we can help.

Club officers and committee chairmen 2015-16

Board of directors Service committee chairmen

President Graham Timms Administration (Club Service) Michael Midlam

Vice President John Aitken Vocational Service Lindsay Forrest

Immediate Past President Tony McClelland Community Service Roger Desmarchelier

President Elect Michael Midlam International Service Georgina Manning

Secretary Geoff Hungerford Youth Service Linda Lam-Rohlfs

Treasurer Graham Maslen Social events Joy Newling

Director - Membership Tony McClelland Bobbin Head Cycle Classic Tony McClelland

Director - Public Relations Roger Desmarchelier

Director - Club Administration Michael Midlam Sergeant-at-Arms Malcolm Braid

Director - Service Projects John Aitken Assistant Secretary Lindsay Forrest

Director - Rotary Foundation Peter Tang Assistant Treasurer Chris Lewis

Club committees 2015-16

Administration: Michael Midlam, Geoff Hungerford, Rob Hall (Program), Bob Ivey (Web and social media), Graham Maslen, Michael Tyler (Koongga)

Bobbin Head Cycle Classic: Tony McClelland, John Aitken, Ross Egan, Bob Elsworth, Peter Kipps, Graham Timms

Club History: Malcolm Braid, Tom Jackson

Community: Roger Desmarchelier, Gary Dawson, Ross Egan (Daffodil Day), Greg Goodman (Bowelscan), Chris Hoch (Red Shield), Nick Kenyon, Ted Price

International: Georgina Manning, Roger Desmarchelier, Emyr Evans, Dilys Geddes, Rob Hall, Loïc Lacombe, Graham Maslen, Greg Newling

Membership: Tony McClelland, Caroline Jones, Ken Sackville

Public Relations: Roger Desmarchelier, Linda Lam-Rohlfs, Georgina Manning,

Rotary Foundation: Peter Tang, Lindsay Forrest, Chris Hoch, Greg Newling

Social Events: Joy Newling, Ross Egan, Dilys Ged-des, Georgina Manning,

Vocational: Lindsay Forrest, Lou Coenen, David For-sythe, Peter Kipps, Michael Tyler

Youth: Linda Lam-Rohlfs, Joyce Enos, Stan Glaser, Gary Keating, Chris Lewis, Joy Newling, Don Riddell

Calendar of events

September 7 Philip Smith: Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children

14 Archie Law: Action Aid

21 Shen Yun: Chinese artistic performers

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October 5 Public holiday: no meeting

12 [Hat Day] Dr Simone Isemann: Hoarding

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November 2 Hugh McKay: The community

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December 7